Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Past: Wikidata et Wiktionnaire session at the French-speaking WikiConvention by Pamputt (slides)
- Upcoming: WikidataWednesday in Vienna, September 18th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, September 20th
- Upcoming: #4 Wikidata tea party/第4回 ウィキデータ茶話会, 20 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
- Upcoming: Wikibase Workshop/ウィキベースワークショップ, 28 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata gets wordier, by Christian Lieske and Felix Sasaki on Multilingual
- Non-Parametric Class Completeness Estimators for Collaborative Knowledge Graphs -- The Case of Wikidata - Michael Luggen et al.
- Tool of the week
- Hauki lets you browse existing Lexemes, add Senses to them, and easily create new Lexemes for common languages and lexical categories.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- мир (L99999) (peace), мир (100000) (world/earth) and L166666 were created
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: cumulative elevation gain, climbing route
- External identifiers: Lower Austrian Museum ID, Auckland Museum ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID, Al-Jazeera topic ID, Digital Giza ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, Downdetector ID, TOP500 System ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Maine Trail Finder ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Masters Thesis, OFLC classification (New Zealand), worn by, station type, interchange, status, first, last and so on, front and backside
- External identifiers: Archnet Site ID, Trail Finder ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, code DANE, ICD-11, SMHI drainage basin ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Mixer game ID, Vudu video ID
- Query examples:
- Number of times a Wikidata item for Carl von Linnaeus was created
- Picture of species were the author(s) of the first scientific description is in WD and connected to Uppsala University Alvin database
- same query but where we miss a picture in Wikidata
- Twins with different places of birth (source)
- Places in Scottish local government areas (source)
- Libraries in Austria (source)
- Schema examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Textile arts, Dark
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Started working on two new projects: improving the resource loader module and tainted references
- Wikidata Bridge: save the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
- Show the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
- Warn user about blank edit summary on EntitySchema (phab:T230399)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!